JUSTIN BIEBER: NEVER SAY NEVER 
CRAZY RICH ASIANS 
NOW YOU SEE ME 2 
"Crazy Rich Asians" director Jon M. Chu and Thai helmer Nattawut “Baz” Poonpiriya have boarded Netflix's planned retelling of last year's dramatic rescue of a boys' soccer team trapped in a cave in Thailand.Chu and Poonpiriya, who directed Asian hit film "Bad Genius," are partnering with Netflix and SK Global Entertainment on the story after the 13 Thumluang Company Limited granted the streaming giant and SK Global rights to the saga, which Variety reported last month.The project, which could be...
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It’s tough to trace a throughline from “Justin Bieber: Never Say Never” to “G.I. Joe: Retaliation” and on to “Crazy Rich Asians,” but director-producer Chu brought to the first two a distinct, kinetic visual style that made the perfect segue to the frenetic world of over-the-top wealth in the latter, a buzzy rom-com that wowed at the box office as the first studio movie in a quarter century with an all-Asian cast. The sequel was a lock before the lines had even cleared. In the wings are “In The Heights,” the long-gestating adaptation of the breakout musical by “Hamilton” phenomenon Lin-Manuel Miranda, and round three of heist actioner “Now You See Me.” Riding the wave, he’s also tackling TV for Apple with a series about a real-life 11-year-old investigative reporter.
